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Community forum, trainings, keynote presentations, consulting

Strong families make strong communities. When you sponsor community forum featuring Words Can Work DVDs and booklets you invest in your community.

Plan a community forum with key community stakeholders to initiate a lifesaving dialogue about issues affecting adolescents and young adults. Forum for large groups or small feature any of our DVDs. Participants view and discuss the video and receive Words Can Work booklets and other take home materials.

Our DVD Depression: True Stories was featured in a community forum co-sponsored by Mass General Hospital and the Mass Department of Mental Health. Hundreds of educators, parents, advocates, policymakers, law enforcement officials, and work/life professionals viewed and discussed the DVD with an expert panel. Attendees received DVDs and Words Can Work booklets for their community outreach. Read one school's response. Read more comments.

Trainings

Our onsite and online trainings prepare professionals to deliver our programs. Words Can Work founder Jeanne Blake and Dr. Joseph Gold, Medical Director of McLean Hospital, Harvard's largest psychiatric facility, trained Boston Public School personnel in the delivery of Depression: True Stories. Attendees said the training significantly enhanced their skills. Read comments.

In the Workplace
Corporate work/life and EAPs feature Words Can Work resources. When families can talk openly, everyone benefits. Kids grow up more safely and parents are less stressed and more focused at work and in life.

Offer our DVDs and booklets to your employees. Read how Massachusetts General Hospital's EAP is using Words Can Work.

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Contact Us
For more information, and to schedule consulting, a keynote speech, or training, call 978.282.1663 or e-mail kmaclean@wordscanwork.com.

Jeanne Blake's multi-media keynote presentations help parents and other caregivers, educators and health care providers understand the challenges facing young people.
Speaking schedule

	The Power of Girls: Inside and Out - VHS/DVD Girls tell how friends, parents, or other caregivers helped them handle bullying, eating disorders, early sexual activity, and deep loss.
	Words Can Work: When Talking About Depression - Booklet Young people, teens and parents tell how they discuss depression and other mental health disorders.
	Steroids: True Stories Hosted by Curt Schilling - DVD Offers powerful messages about steroid abuse for boys, girls and parents.
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